Under many work circumstances, I find it easy to get angry. Or I find it easy to be frustrated with a difficult person. Now I know that the situation is not as simple as “X makes me angry,” or “Y is frustrating.” I am aware that the particular state I am in plays a part […]
We humans tend to use categories a lot, at least as adults. Having a category allows us to save space in our brain; it’s like a compression system. By “compression system,” I just mean that it takes less brainpower to remember “a number whose six digits are eights” than to remember “eight hundred eighty eight […]
Photo: L.Brumm Photography We all know that advice is overrated (except our advice to others, which is unheeded). It’s just hard to acquire wisdom through advice-giving. We also all know the “other person’s shoes” idea, how experiencing something from another point of view can bring insight. I’m not going to give advice in this post; I’ll […]